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Photograph of SCP-XXXX in 199█, acquired via confiscation of research documents.
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be kept, reconstituted as close to its original schematics as possible, at Provisional Site-267. Any testing conducted on SCP-XXXX must be approved by Level 3 Foundation researchers or above.
Foundation personnel at Provisional Site-267 should, barring extenuating circumstances, be kept on-site for no longer than thirty days before relocation elsewhere. Returning to Site-267 by a former Site researcher can occur no sooner than two months following their egress.
Selection of staff for Provisional Site-267 and SCP-XXXX research should favor, among others, those personnel who are hard-of-hearing, fluent in American Sign Language or Langue des signes québécoise, or otherwise skilled in non-verbal interpersonal communication. Intensive psychological screening is required for all new Prov. Site-267 personnel, in order to avoid individuals with egotistical or fevered viewpoints being further influenced by SCP-XXXX’s anomalous effects.
Description: [Paragraphs explaining the description]
Addendum: [Optional additional paragraphs]
For those reading. Self-explanatory.
Item #: SCP-3749
Photograph of a non-anomalous 1 wén coin similar to SCP-3749, lacking the inscription on the reverse side.
Containment procedures: SCP-3749 is to be contained indefinitely inside Area-191, a square 1 km exclusion zone located in northeastern Montana, █ km south of the Canadian border and ██ km north of the town of Wh███████. SCP-3479 is kept inside a secure box, in a bare superquadric room 0.8 km below ground. The room must be equipped with 0.3m thick concrete walls, self-sustaining environmental regulators, and a two-way airlock at all times.
3m barbed wire fences have been erected around Area-191 to prevent local wildlife from entering, and aerosol avian deterrents are in place to deter birds from entering the Area. The current Area Director, also referred to as Agent Calgary, must spray the entire exclusion zone with non-selective herbicide every month. Non-operational agrochemical production facilities have been constructed as a cover story.
No SCP personnel may enter or conduct research in Area-191 without explicit written approval from Level 4 personnel and appropriate protection apparel. All personnel exiting Area-191 must follow decontamination protocols upon completion of operations. If any SCP personnel, military persons, or civilians, EXCEPT for the Area Director, are infected as a result of SCP-3749, they are to be immediately quarantined for a minimum of five months. Release of those affected must then be approved by at least two members of the O5 Council.
Description: SCP-3749 is the designation collectively given to both a 40cm length of high-quality silk, and a pendant threaded onto the silk. The pendant is a copper 1 wén coin, minted by the Chinese Board of Reserves circa 1910, weighing approximately 4.6 g and with dimensions of 24.3mm x 24.3mm x 2mm. When placed in total darkness, SCP-3749 is observed to emit a dim blue light of roughly 0.8 candelas. It is currently unknown as to whether the anomalous properties of SCP-3749 are due to the pendant, the silk, or the collective apparatus.
On the reverse side of the pendant is a Mandarin inscription in small print, reading, "May your enemies be struck down with ailments / and may Yan Luo judge them with vigor."
Every two hours, SCP-3749 becomes active and generates a new pathogen, whose genetic nature is previously unrecorded by all known scientific research. The host, or “Patient Zero” of this new disease, invariably fulfills certain criteria, namely:
- The host is an animal of the clade Eumetazoa
- The host is mortal
- The host was located within approximately 0.5 km of SCP-3749 at time of infection
- The host has not been infected by any other pathogens of anomalous origin
If no organism meets the above criteria at the time of activity, SCP-3749 will become inactive for two hours.
During medical experiments, the disease has been observed to spread throughout the host’s entire mass within a matter of minutes. The infected tend to display minor symptoms within two to four days, major symptoms within a week, and may die from their ailments if proper treatment is not rapidly provided. Each pathogen instance generated possesses a strain wholly unique from other instances, and thus each requires intense prolonged medical research to develop cures for. Likewise, the symptoms of each instance vary, but reported past issues include: plantar fasciitis, dark blue spots, suffocation (liquid in the lungs), jaundice, dysuria, [DATA EXPUNGED], organ failure, and suffocation (liquid in the mouth). The disease is also always highly viral, capable of spreading via the air, direct contact, body secretions, and contaminated consumables.
November 1917 Recovery Logs: A series of messages between Foundation assets in the Royal Canadian Army and Foundation hubs, leading to the permanent containment of SCP-3749.
November 2, 1917 0406 MDT
Sent by: Brigadier █████ ████, Regina, Saskatchewan
Received by: Foundation Intelligence, ███████, California
BRIGADIER HYBRIS REGINA STOP POSSIBLE ANOMALOUS NECKLACE OBJECT CARRIED BY CHINAMEN ESCORTED BY ARMY STOP IMMEDIATE CONTAMINATION RISK STOP PLEASE ADVISE STOP
November 3, 1917 0631 MDT
Sent by: Foundation Intelligence, ███████, California
Received by: Brigadier █████ ████, Indian Head, Saskatchewan
REMOVE ANOMALY FROM REGIMENT STOP CONTINUE UPDATES ON LOCATION STOP ISOLATE AND REPORT SYMPTOMS STOP
November 4, 1917 0406 MDT
Sent by: Brigadier █████ ████, Regina, Saskatchewan
Received by: Foundation Intelligence, ███████, CaliforniaATTEMPTS TO PEACEFULLY RETRIEVE OBJECT FROM CHINESE LABORER UNSUCCESSFUL STOP TROOPS SUCCUMBING TO PATHOGENS STOP TWO PASSED TONIGHT STOP
November 6, 1917 1631 MDT
Sent by: Foundation Intelligence, ███████, California
Received by: Colonel Todd Caubvick, Indian Head, Saskatchewan
UPDATE STATUS IMMEDIATELY
November 6, 1917 1645 MDT
Sent by: Colonel Todd Caubvick, Indian Head, Saskatchewan
Received by: Foundation Intelligence, ███████, California
BRIGADIER HYBRIS CRITICALLY INJURED IN ALTERCATION WITH CHINESE POSSESSOR OF ANOMALY STOP OBJECT IS IN MY CUSTODY STOP RECOMMEND DEFECTION FROM CAMP TO SEEK ISOLATION CONTAINMENT STOP MY MEN ARE DEAD STOP ELEVEN TODAY STOP PLEASE ADVISE STOP MY MEN ARE DEAD STOP
November 3, 1917 2003 MDT
Sent by: Foundation Intelligence, ███████, California
Received by: Colonel Todd Caubvick, Indian Head, Saskatchewan
[[DATA EXPUNGED]]
November 3, 1917 2014 MDT
Sent by: Colonel Todd Caubvick, Weyburn, Saskatchewan
Received by: Foundation Intelligence, ███████, California
███K YOUR VAGARIES STOP FOUNDATION INTERESTS HAVE ALWAYS SELFISHLY SUPERSEDED MY TYPE STOP HEADED FOR BORDER STOP MUST HIDE STOP
At approximately 0200 MDT that night, Colonel Caubvick was apprehended by the Glasgow Sheriff’s Department. A month of real-time and on-location effort was thereafter exerted to create Area-191.
Setting up a sandbox page to workshop ideas. The technical description is at the top but the more emotional and (hopefully) compelling bits are further down.
Approximate origin location of the SCP, courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.
Premise: The SCP is some sort of locket or necklace (perhaps made from a coin of low denomination?) that's been blessed by a local shaman from the Shandong / Shan Tung Province of northern China.
Humans within a 1.2 mile radius of the SCP will frequently become violently ill with various pathogens, ones specifically which are not effectively treatable by current medicinal technology. Humans wearing the locket are not targeted by this effect.
On the reverse or interior side of the locket is an inscription in Mandarin, reading, "May your enemies be struck down with ailments, and may Yan Luo judge them with vigor."
Security Containment Procedures: ~~fill this in~~
Incident/Interview/Transmission Log: ~~see Character Development and Themes~~
Character Dev and Themes: so this is where things should get kind of interesting. There are a couple of concepts I've been juggling: the environment cost of the SCP Foundation, or maybe how the Foundation networks with militaries of countries (conflict vs. cooperation). However one theme I definitely want to explore is this: a tipping point of globalization.
IRL background: The Spanish Flu epidemic of the 1910s was one of the first truly global pathogens to near-suddenly appear, requiring a decade of medical research to combat. It turned the tides of wars, strengthened apartheid, and was eventually brought down by cooperation between different countries (Germany, UK, US) - furthered by the same globalization that allowed it to spread. One of our universe's historians' leading theories is that the Spanish Flu (H1N1) originated in Northeast Asia, and was introduced to North America via Chinese laborers traveling through Canada by rail, on their way to the Allied front lines of Europe. It would be in this way the SCP is discovered - assets in the Canadian military begin to notice a sickness sweeping across regiments.
But where does the Foundation come into all of this? Well, at the turn of the 20th century it's coalescing into the shadowy cold organization we've all come to know and love. I am hoping to use the characters introduced in the Logs to show that this SCP in particular was a new challenge for the Foundation. It was one of the first SCPs (known) to exist and travel in a highly-interconnected world, engaged in a global conflict. This would be one of the largest tasks that the fledgling Foundation has faced in its existence, and perhaps through the addition of a Tale or two we'd get to see it desperately assemble the manpower, resources, and connections required to track, halt, and contain the SCP's H1N1 progeny. It would test the resolve of every researcher assigned to study it, and in the end would prove rather formative to this SCPF's history.
Additional addenda:
Metadata: Personal Log of Agent Calgary-0█, #218, November ██ 191█.
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The Mycenaeans were chock full of it.
Historians of the modern age sit, in their ivory towers, up where that air is warm, and they opine about what caused the major early Greek civilization to fall. Earthquakes, tempests, invaders from the south, and so forth. Amateurs dig up masks and call them fallen heroes. Boy, Schliemann became world-famous for doing just that. But the truth, as it often is, remains stubbornly less glamorous.
Pathogens.
I killed Apollinaire last week. We killed him, if you haven't heard already. The rubes tossed down the rag the other day - Sunday post. In big print: 'À MORT GUILLAUME!' LUMINARY DECEASED. The Master of Calligrammes, Surrealist wonder - all limp in Paris. His body is five thousand miles away, but I… I feel ungodly washed up about it. It, and the sickness, I suppose. As he goes, so will I, eventually…
*Agent Calgary-0█ proceeds to cough for approximately thirty seconds.*
Since the subject has been brought up… I estimate I have another three months down here. Then, either the Foundation will send hopeless grunt workers down, or the research will cease. I am trying my hardest to survive - maybe because both of those options weigh heavy on my conscience.
Item #: SCP-3749
Addendum: [Optional additional paragraphs]
Interviewed: [The person, persons, or SCP being interviewed]
Interviewer: [Interviewer, can be blocked out using █]
Foreword: [Small passage describing the interview]
<Begin Log, [optional time info]>
Interviewer: [speech]
Person: [speech]
[Repeat as necessary]
<End Log, [optional time info]>
Closing Statement: [Small summary and passage on what transpired afterward]
